News from Around the Net: 26-AUG-2011

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What a week, but here we are at Friday! Let’s hope next week is an improvement across the board.

Couple of quick notes:

If you get a chance and are on Facebook, can you swing by my Facebook page for GKR and “like” it? I’m trying to get the page to 50 likes for a more readable URL. You can find the page here and thanks in advance!

If you missed, it this past weekend was H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday! That’s right, the writer who brought Cthulhu into the world would have been 121 years old last Saturday. I wonder what he would have created if he’d lived another few decades? [shudder] Then again, maybe I should stop wondering…

And if you’re looking for some female character ideas, check out “Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor.” No chicks in chain mail bikinis here, which is probably good – they’d probably chaff in all the wrong places…

Games and Gaming

If you’re a GM, you’ve probably had an off night or two. But what happens when your players take one risk too many and have an epic fail? Chris Perkins at the WotC DND blog has some great ideas on what to do when it happens. Failure is fodder for great adventures. Sometimes failure is just what the doctor ordered, but the trick is encouraging them to pick themselves up and dust themselves off…

Do you ever think that your games are too long? There was a time when I could game for 12 hours straight, but that time is long past. These days I’m good for maybe 32-4 hours of solid gaming before my brain turns to sludge. Over at The Artifact RPG, they wonder if shorter sessions (possibly as short as an hour) might be easier to plan around… What do you think? I might be up for this approach…

Though I personally don’t see spending a lot of time playing a RPG game on Facebook myself, I’ve been very curious to see what WotC is doing with their new Facebook game – Heroes of Neverwinter. Apparently Merc Hoffman at Gizmoninja was curious too and he wrote a review detailing his experiences with the game and it sounds like a positive transition for 4e to computer games.